Communication Behaviors And Caregiver Response Paper

The article I choose “Communication Behaviors and Patient and Caregiver Emotional Concerns: A Description of Home Hospice Communication” this article about communication behaviors used by nurses in the hospice care. Therefore, patients and caregivers expressed at least one concern in the vast majority of visits. The most prevalent distress areas reflected psychological and physical issues. Nurses used proportionally more positive emotion statements before patient and caregiver concerns, compared to the visit overall. Nurses asked proportionally more physical questions after concern statements. Nurses also used more emotional responses before and after patient and caregiver concerns, relative to the entire visit. Furthermore, patients with cancer
and caregivers frequently talk about distressing issues. Hospice nurses use specific communication behaviors to elicit and address those issues. Implications for Nursing: Home hospice provides a venue to examine nurse communication behaviors used to elicit and respond to patient and caregiver distress. These strategies could be taught to nurses who encounter patient distress less frequently or are less comfortable with emotional conversations.